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Rosalina Miranda works at all hours of the day as a cleaner of warehouses and offices in New Jersey. After 15 years she’s unhappy about never getting a raise. Her best hope could be lawmakers now debating a proposed hike in the state’s minimum wage.

‘Rotis Not Riots’ Offers England Food for Thought

By Womens Enews Staff ● Employment ● August 20, 2011

An online discussion group “Rotis not Riots” has started to look at the causes of last week’s riots in England. That offers a bit of relief from the authoritarian backlash coming from the country’s privileged-male power structure.

Libyan Women Challenge Mindset Created by Tyranny

By Womens Enews Staff ● Employment ● July 29, 2011

Libyans have lived under a dictatorship for over 40 years and the effort to think and act freely doesn’t come easily. In Benghazi, a small women-led group called Express is waging a psycho-social effort to “Get Rid of the Gadhafi Inside You.”

In Egypt, Sudan’s Single Moms Resist Resettlement

By Womens Enews Staff ● Politics ● July 22, 2011

Refugees from South Sudan who are living in Egypt have both a newly independent homeland and a host country that has become harsher since the January revolution. For single moms, the future still looks brighter where they are.

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